Butcher Boy (OT2003-3006-020)
Dublin Core
Title
Butcher Boy (OT2003-3006-020)
Alternative Title
The Butcher's Boy
Description
Song excerpted from audio recording OT2003-3006, part of VFC2003-0007 Margaret MacArthur Collection.
Creator
Source
Margaret MacArthur Collection -- VFC2003-0007. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.
Date Created
undated
Contributor
Is Part Of
Language
en
Type
Identifier
VFC2003-0007 OT2003-3006-020
Rights Holder
Vermont Folklife Center
Song Item Type Metadata
Local Title
Butcher Boy
Standard Title
The Butcher/Butcher's Boy
Standard Title Reference
Folk Music Index (http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex)
Transcription
In Jersey City where I did dwell
There lived a butcher boy I loved so well
He courted me my heart away
And now with me will not stay
There is an inn in this same town
Where my love goes and sits him down
He takes a strange girl on his knee
And he tells to her what he won't tell me
I wish indeed I was again
I wish I was a maid again
But a maid again I never can be
Til apples grow on a hemlock tree
Location
Duration
0:54
Files
Collection
Citation
Fairbanks, Lester, “Butcher Boy (OT2003-3006-020),” Vermont Folklife Center Digital Collections, accessed December 27, 2024, https://vtfolklifearchive.org/collections/items/show/1005.
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